On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:02:56 +0100, "Peter Smyth"
wrote:

I suspect that if bus drivers are not stopping on the diverted route it is
because they have been told not to rather than to deliberately annoy you.
Indeed it makes sense not to add even more time on to an already extended
journey to pick up people at every stop on the way.

Maybe it would be seen as pirating passengers from another route
allocated to another operator.